US7347910B2 - Method for manufacturing a container end wall of lightweight construction and a container provided with such an end wall - Google Patents
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- This invention concerns a method for manufacturing a container end wall of light-weight construction and a non-pressurized container of thermoplastics the mantle of which being a lightweight tube manufactured from a spirally wound hollow profile and the end wall of which is fixed by welding.
- the end walls for lightweight construction containers of thermoplastics were made of a planar disc, an armed planar disc, a single layer or an armed single layer dome.
- a disadvantage of these previously known end wall solutions is that the used plastics material have to be immoderately thick in order to achieve sufficient strength and stability, which increases the manufacturing costs and complicates the manufacturing process proper.
- dome shaped end walls are used the material thickness can be somewhat decreased, but the consumption of plastics material is relatively high for each end wall.
- the end wall of a container is cylindrically curved, whereby it is manufactured from a mould shape, cut from the wall of a lightweight tube of same type as that forming the mantle of the container.
- the cut out piece is cut to form a piece intended to form fit with the container, which piece is welded to the inside surface of the mantle.
- a rigid mantle is achieved with a smaller material consumption than with the previously mentioned solutions, but net volume of the container will suffer to some extent and at the same time fitting of the form piece into the mantle is a difficult and time consuming operation.
- DE A 2 228 713 proposes use of vacuum to achieve a drawing effect between the plastics material and the mould surface.
- vacuum is used between each of the two wall surfaces of the plastics material to be moulded and the mould halves, whereas according to DE A 3 710 584 no mould proper is used, but the edges of a piece to be moulded are kept fixed, and pressurized air is conducted to one side of the piece and into channels thereof, resulting in a dome shaped bulging of the piece to be moulded.
- a common feature of the above mentioned known methods is that the sheets to be moulded are relative thin, and the object was mainly to produce skylight windows and glass domes for lamps. Any indication that the abovementioned methods could be used in producing container end walls cannot be found in any said documents. Further, thick double walled sheets cannot on the whole be produced by extrusion, so any starting material for such a heat moulding method is not available either.
- the object of the present invention is to eliminate the abovementioned problems so that an easy and fast as well as material saving method for producing container end walls is achieved, and to achieve a container provided with such an end wall.
- This object is achieved with a method according to the present invention, which is characterized by the steps as follow:
- Heating of the pre-form of an end wall to a plastic state is preferably carried out by means of an IR emitter or IR emitters, a convection oven or possibly by means of a heated mould. Heating can also be carried out by a combination of these. To heat large size pieces to a plastic state an effective and as uniform as possible heating is required so that all parts of a pre-form to be moulded are heated up in principle at the same time.
- one preferred embodiment of the invention proposes tensile stressing of the inner surface of the pre-form during the pressing stage.
- the mould halves are tempered during the moulding stage.
- the end wall piece can preferably be provided with additional reinforcement before it is fixed to the mantle.
- Such an additional reinforcement is preferably a band surrounding the web region of the periphery of the end wall piece, which band can be of metal, of a composite material or the like.
- An annular groove for said reinforcement band can preferably be machine-tooled at the web region of the periphery of the end wall piece.
- An end wall piece according to the invention is fixed to the mantle of the container preferably by both an inner and an outer welding seam.
- Welding can be carried out by a hand extruder, by an extrusion automat, by a friction welding, or electro welding method or possibly by butt welding.
- the container according to the invention is characterized in that the end wall of it is mould pressed to dome shape and cut, from a lightweight tube of a same type as the tube forming the mantle of the container, to a form corresponding to the end surface of said tube.
- the container is a drain well, the other dome shape end wall of said container is formed to a reducer of the well.
- FIG. 1 discloses an example of a lightweight tube, from which the pre-form of an end wall is to be cut, partly cut;
- FIG. 2 discloses perspective view of a pie-form of an end wall cut from a tube according to FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 3 discloses schematically an example of a convection oven to be used in the invention for heating the pre-forms
- FIG. 4 discloses schematically mould pressing of a pre-form to a dome shaped piece
- FIG. 5 discloses schematically a perspective view of an intermediate form of a mould pressed end wall piece
- FIG. 6 discloses schematically machine-tooling of the edge portion of an end wall piece in conformity with the shape of the end surface of the container mantle;
- FIG. 7 discloses an example of a reinforcement solution of the end wall piece
- FIG. 8 discloses a detailed principle view of the fixing of the end wall to the mantle of the container.
- thermoplastics tube 1 is manufactured by spirally winding a thermoplastics hollow profile 2 having a substantially rectangular cross section around a cylindrical rotating drum or a corresponding support and joining adjacent rounds of this hollow profile 2 together for instance by welding, whereby a light-weight tube 1 is achieved comprising an outer wall 1 a and an inner wall 1 b as well as spirally extending partition wall 1 c connecting the aforementioned walls, between which walls there is a similarly spirally extending channel 2 a.
- thermoplastics tube 1 From the wall of the thermoplastics tube 1 manufactured as described above a substantially rectangular curved piece is cut to a pre-form 3 for an end wall. Said pre-form 3 is moved for instance to a convection oven 4 , wherein it is heated until the thermoplastics pre-form 3 reaches a plastic state.
- the pre-form 3 is placed between two mould halves 5 a , 5 b , one of which is a male mould half 5 a with a dome shaped convex mould surface and the other is a female mould half 5 b with a dome shaped concave mould surface.
- the inner wall 1 b of the pre-form can be kept under tension during the mould pressing, as schematically shown by arrows FF in FIG. 4 . Further it is preferred that vacuum is maintained between the mould halves 5 a and 5 b , respectively and the walls 1 a and 1 b , respectively of the pre-form 3 , at least when the mould halves are pushed against each other.
- the piece mould to dome shape is cooled while it is pressed between the mould halves 5 a , 5 b , whereupon it is cut to a dome shaped disc 6 as shown in FIG. 5 with a size of the outer diameter of a container to be manufactured, as is schematically indicated in the left part of FIG. 6 .
- the cutting is preferably performed so that the pre-form 3 is brought into rotation around its central axle whereby a cutting knife 7 is mounted at a distance from said central axle corresponding to the outer diameter of the container to be manufactured.
- a strip having a width corresponding to the thickness of the mantle 8 of a container to be manufactured is cut from the edge of the disc 6 at the inside of the convex outer wall of the disc 6 , as schematically shown at the right side of FIG. 6 .
- the cutter 9 used to machine-tool the edge portion of the end wall piece 6 can preferably have such a shape that it simultaneously cuts an annular groove at the web of the edge of the end wall piece 6 for a reinforcement band 10 of metal, composite or another material surrounding the end wall piece 6 .
- the edge portion of the end wall piece 6 When the edge portion of the end wall piece 6 has been machine tooled as described above, it is ready to be fixed to the end of the container mantle, which mantle comprise a lightweight tube of the same type as that from which the pre-form 3 of the end wall piece 6 has been cut.
- the end wall piece 6 is fixed to the mantle preferably by welding an outer 11 a and an inner 11 b weld seem using a hand extruder and/or an extrusion automat.
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- producing a large size lightweight thermoplastic tube by spirally winding and joining together a hollow profile of thermoplastics;
- cutting a piece from such a tube to form a pre-form of an end wall;
- heating the pre-form into a mouldable state;
- pressing the pre-form into a dome shaped piece between a male and a female mould-half;
- cooling the dome shaped piece while pressed between the mould-halves;
- machine-tooling the edges of the cooled piece to match the cross-sectional surface of the tube mantle, and
- joining the mantle and the end wall together by welding.
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